Shopping during the holiday season can present unique danger. The holiday season is a time when busy people can become careless and vulnerable to theft and other holiday crime. Taking a few prevention measures can help protect your safety and keep your holiday season joyous.

More Holiday Tips:

• Holiday Safety Quiz
  
• Protecting Children During the Holidays
  
• Driving During the Holidays

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Movie director Roman Polanski has been granted $4.5 million bail by a Swiss Criminal Court judge and will be held under house arrest with electronic monitoring instead of jail. He will have to remain in Switzerland until authorities rule on his extradition to the United States.

In the U.S. Polanski faces charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Read more...

Autopsy reports on a slain Florida couple known for adopting disabled children show that they both were shot multiple times in the bedroom during a home-invasion robbery. Byrd and Melanie Billings were killed in their Beulah home July 9.

Eight people have been arrested in connection with their deaths and four of them face the death penalty. Read more...

Blood and DNA evidence links a lab technician to a slain Yale University medical student, according to details in an arrest warrant issued in the case. DNA from Raymond Clark and victim Annie Le were found on a sock hidden in the ceiling near where Le's body was found, the warrant said.

Le, a pharmacology doctoral student, disappeared from the research lab September 8. Read more...